A world where basic income isn't downvoted, but strong trade unions or anti-trus...

morei · on March 10, 2021

Unions definitely have their upsides, but also some rather strong downsides (c.f. most police unions).

Basic income has many of the same upsides, but the downsides are mostly about the dollar cost.

It's not unreasonable that some people prefer to pay (eg) higher taxes than suffer various forms of corruption.

solveit · on March 11, 2021

We think unions and laws tend to distort markets much more than honest straight cash transfers.

anonuser123456 · on March 12, 2021

UBI doesn’t mess with the price system and ruin market efficiency. Unions totally screw it up.

I will take UBI or negative income tax every day of the week over unions.